The sports and pastimes of the people of England : Including the rural and domestic recreations, May games, mummeries, shows, processions, pageants, and pompous spectacles, from the earliest period to the present time (1845)
Strutt, Joseph, 1749-1802, Hone, William, 1780-1842 · London : T. Togg · leaf 458
E PEOPLE OF ENGLAND* 381 X.—BOB-CHERRY.This is a play among children, says Johnson, in whichthe cherry is hung* so as to bob ag-ainst the mouth, or ratherso high as to oblige them to jump in order to catch it in theirmouth, for which reason the candidate is often unsuccessful.Hence the point in the… … 118. Bob-Cherry. In this engraving, taken from a MS. of the fourteenth century,in the Royal Library, we see a sport of this kind where fourpersons are playing, but the object they are aiming at is muchlarger than a cherry, and was probably intended to representan apple or an orange. It was…
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